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Learning From Mistakes

By Marissa Mayer - Stanford
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Lecture Description

Madonna had The Sex Book. Apple had the Newton. Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products & User Experience for Google, points out that all the best brands, including her own, have made some tremendous product errors. But what allows an enterprise to endure, she says, is its ability to learn from its mistakes and make corrections. Performance is what's important, even if it's not instantaneous.  

Course Index

  1. Ideas Come From Everywhere
  2. Give Ideas Credit, Not Credit for Ideas
  3. Work with Smart People
  4. License to Pursue Dreams
  5. Learning From Mistakes
  6. Data is Apolitical
  7. Creativity Loves Constraint
  8. Bank Users, Not Money
  9. Don't Kill Projects; Morph Them
  10. Surviving the Bubble